A history of the old English letter foundries : with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography.
Talbot Baines Reed's 1887 history of English type foundries, published in London by Elliot Stock for printers, typefounders and book collectors. Its plates reproduce specimen types, punches and ornaments, including square white-line initials set against dotted grounds of curling foliage, usable as drop caps, monograms or dense all-over pattern fills.
